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Asif Zardari, parallel establishment and chants of “revolution”: President Asif Ali Zardari’s talk in the CEC meeting held on 4th February, 2011 has been quoted through various sources in The News and Jang. For the first time, it seems, there has been no bias or angling to
Another economic crisis? – by S. Akbar Zaidi: Dawn, February 4, 2011 THE problem with making arguments and stating opinions which go against the grain of what passes as current conventional wisdom is that this comes with a huge baggage of issues. Often, contrary views are misconstrued,
Faisal Abidi Exposing the Journalists-Judges Alliance: We thank our reader Nasir for identifying February 3, 2011’s program “Islamabad Tonight with Nadeem Malik” on Aaj TV. The program had Faisal Raza Abidi representing the PPP, Rasheed Godil representing MQM and Ibrahim Khan representing the Jamat-e-Islami. The
Joke of the year by Hamid Mir: Related Article: Hamid Mir criticizes Najam Sethi and Khaled Ahmed In his column titled “Media kay khilaf media ka jhoot”, Pakistan’s leading journalist-cum-television anchor-cum-Taliban/Al Qaeda supporter, Hamid Mir has tried to clarify that Khaled Ahmed has wrongly translated his
Behind the tunes of ‘Bijja Teer Bijja’ – by Rafay Mahmood: Source: Express Tribune KARACHI: Anthems constitute a major part of the music enfold in Pakistan and they alone sell more copies during election campaigns than a commercial album sells throughout the year. And now recent trends show that anthems come
Putting prisoners to work – by Ali Wahab: Express Tribune Published: January 31, 2011 Pakistan has a large number of offenders in jails who can be put to good use. DESIGN: S.JAMAL When I was in university nearly a decade ago, we could use China in a
Think ahead – Save the future! by Pakeezah Saadat: A better future is what we all aim for. It can only be obtained with the help of education for everyone regardless of anyone’s social/financial status in a society. Education can spark up the minds of our 60% youth-based
Comment moderation at LUBP and elsewhere – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: The LUBP editors and authors come under some sort of slack over the last few weeks for allegedly “character assassinating potential allies” (who we consider as back-stabbers) and “inciting killing civil society members” (who we consider as Fake Civil
Islami media committee – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: In light of the recent attitude of the media which has been trying to play the role of wakeel-e-shaitaan by bringing the momineen and various other ahl-e-kitab into direct confrontation over various deeni and muashrati masail, there is need
Let’s agitate for regime change in Pakistan: Tunisia and Egypt style – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: Related article: Lets have a revolution: Yeh, Yeh, Yeh! – by Razzak Memon Context: An FCS Meeting In a recent kitty party lunch held at Karachi’s famous Korean Restaurant near the KPT Underpass in Clifton, it was resolved by
Renowned poet, Hamd and Naat Khuwan, Muzaffar Warsi is no more: Those who remember the grand old days of PTV, would remember a very distinguished gentleman reciting Naats and Hamd-e-Bari Taala in his riveting voice. His famous hamd, “Koie to hai jo nizam-i-hasti chala raha hai” is one of the
Halal contracts and haram contracts: An open letter to CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry: Related article: Contract employees: Something the FCS wallas will never write on Asma Jahangir vs Justice Ramday – by Khalid Wasti I have just read the headline “Jobs for retired officers on contract violation of law: SC”, in The
Updated: Death of an eminent educationist: Mrs. Deena Mistry: Pakistan’s eminent educationist, Presidential Pride of Performance recipient and former Principal of Karachi’s second oldest school, BVS Parsi High School, Mrs. Deena Mistry passed away on Thursday, January 27, 2011. Known for her strict disciplinarian ways, she will be
The concept of “More Civilized Civil Society” – by Hussain Bux Mallah: “More civilized civil society” (MCCS) of Pakistan had won a battle when the CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry was restored by street and general’s powers. The electronic media had sponsored many unknown personalities and a majority of simply civilized people of
Thieves protecting thieves? I am confused: Related Article: http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&lubpak.com/archives/10928 Here are some facts: Geo TV, Geo News, Geo Super and Aag TV, owned and operated by Jang Group’s Independent Media Group are known to be tax evaders. Off course, their tax evasion till June 2010
Altaf Bhai’s Martial Law Call For Punjab – By D. Asghar: As entertaining as Altaf Bhai’s speeches are most of the time, the latest one for call for Martial Law in Punjab should be taken as is, for its entertainment value. A couple of days back, another entertainer-cum-astrologer-cum-politician, the honorable
PPP gets 4000 fired employees restored at KESC: To say that the PPP is a group of most masoom people would be quite correct. They are in trouble when in power and in more trouble when not in power. Recently, when the KESC management laid off more
Austerity is commendable, but what will happen to these 550 people?: Punjab’s khadim government has announced that it will abolish 550 civil and police posts, which include 344 from the BS 17-21. According to their analysis, such an effort would annually save Rs. 6.1 billion! Though the effects of such
Intolerant politicians: Our azad media’s latest theme – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: If one looks at the themes that have been pushed by our azad media over the last three and half years, one can see that: Politicians are corrupt (daily news, Zardari bashing, Hajj scandal, land scams, container scandals) Politicians
Chaudhry Nisar and Patwaris: It seems that the two most hated people in the PML-N are Chaudhry Nisar and Rana Sanaullah. Both are notorious to preach good governance yet, there are numerous complaints against them for their attitude, ticking friends and foes the
The Khadim-e-Aaala of Punjab’s Aala kaam: According to Express Tribune, Punjab Chief Minister is bolstering the security of CM’s camp office in Raiwind in the wake of assassination of Salmaan Taseer. Off course, the Raiwind Camp Office is a privately owned residence of the Sharif
Scared of mullahs? Civil Society needs to ally with the PPP for survival – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: Related articles: Taseer’s murder and the call for a ‘broad-based alliance’ between PPP and the ‘civil society’ – by Ahmad Nadeem Gehla Some myths and realities about the self-labelled civil society – by Shahid Khan To say that we
Khadim-e-Aala’s Punjab Police – by Ali Raja: On 13th January, 2011, Chief Minister of Punjab tagged Khadim e Alla Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif very innocently complained that the increased budget of Punjab Police did not work and that the law and order situation of the province
Promoting “Spell Check” to gain worldwide acceptance: After our inability to promote moderation and liberal thinking in our country, we are forced to deviate from the topic and offer our sincere apologies to people who have been bugged by us for the last few years. Instead,
Intellect of our judges and scientists: Riko Diq Project hearings – By Ahmed Iqbalabadi: I had not been following the Riko Diq Project hoo-haa simply for the fact that it was “scooped” by none other than novelist Shaheen Sehbai in The News. Titled “$260 billion gold mines going for a song, behind closed
Justice Sharif’s murder plot ‘a remarkable tale’: Report: Further reading: We look forward to the follow up story to the plot to kill Justice Sharif- by Chaudry Ahmad Khan and Ahmad Iqbalabadi Special Branch Report to kill Khwaja Sharif “false and baseless” The alleged Plot to kill
Salmaan Taseer: the content soul —Dr Mohammad Taqi: Source: Daily Times, January 13, 2011 To let these hordes be the judge, jury and the executioner would be the exact opposite of what Salmaan Taseer stood for. They have succeeded in killing Salmaan Taseer but must not be
“God instructed me to kill” – by Junaid Noor: The chief justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, has taken suo motu notice against the murder of governor Punjab, the late Salman Taseer. The suo motu notice has been taken because the police does not want to take
New day, new issue – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: Our dearest friend, Ansar Abbasi, is always on the lookout of ways to embarrass the political system and political leaders. He was the one who was the architect of last year’s circus of “Fake Degrees”. The pretext of the
Finding a new governor – time for a fitting tribute to Salmaan Taseer: His blood hadn’t even dried that the focus of all the right wing media moved towards making the condemned, here and after, Mumtaz Qadri into a hero and then speculating who will be the new governor of Punjab. Such
Sharifs using 248 Elite Force Personnel!: Look at our Khadim-e-Aala and his use of Elite Force for himself and his family. According to a report in Express Tribune: Out of 67 vehicles, 20 vehicles are with the Sharifs. 248 elite personnel work for the
Let us not vote or support PPP – by Hussain Bux Mallah: We killed Bhuttos, we are killers of hundreds of leaders and Jiyalas of PPP. Yes, we the voters and supporters of PPP are responsible for their killings. If you don’t want more funerals of your leaders stop supporting them
Blasphemy Law rocks Pakistan once more – by Tahir Aslam Gora: Is Pakistan governed and controlled by religious forces? The answer is yes. No matter who is the incharge of the government, be a government run by secular leaning Pakistan Peoples Party, be a government comprised of middle class business
How legitimate MQM’s shikayaat are?: In my post of yesterday titled “PPP’s Hukoomat Jaa Rahee hay – A wish more than analysis”, I had talked about a couple of “shikayaat” that MQM has related to their share in the federal government as well as
PPP’s Hukoomat Jaa Rahee hay – A wish more than analysis: I was looking forward to the program called the “Great Debate” on Geo News last evening. The debate was to be moderated by Iftikhar Ahmed and Hamid Mir. Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s President Saeed Shafiq was the
Why Nawaz Sharif doesn’t want to rock the boat – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: The political actors of Pakistan namely the media anchors, journalists, “civil society”, retired civil servants etc have literally been praying for miracles that would force the PPP out of power. Being destructive in their nature, they just cannot expect
Ik aur December – Be-Sharam Brigade Ke Naam! by Shahid Mahmood: A poet’s love for our Be-Sharam Brigade comprising of Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Roedad Khan, Saaleh Zafir and all those who “suffered” one more year! Usey kehna ik aur December ja raha hai December ke guzartay hi baras jhooti pesheen
Visionary vs Reactionary – Hussain Shaheed Suhrwardy: How does one differentiate between a visionary and a reactionary politician? By reading the excerpts of the speech of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Chief Minister of the United Bengal and founder of Awami Muslim League which later on became
Media and Tourism ~ a reflection – by Mahhad Nayyer: Tourism and traveling is big business in today’s world. People travel and see fascinating things. Traveling is a way to relax. People take pictures to freeze their memories. I also travel a lot after coming to America, but my Pakistani soul
MQM gives the Political Actors ventilator – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: During the last one and half years, the MQM’s role has been nothing less than an enigma. They are part and parcel of the power structure of the country. They have federal ministries albeit not as many as they